Q: Rod has this question: "I recently made the switch over to Virtual Server 2005 from VMware. I love the web based interface but am having troubles with enabling SSL. Can I use SelfSSL from the IIS6 Reskit? Could I set up a CA in a virtual machine to...

Well, I guess you figured out my name is Daniel van Soest.
I work for Microsoft NL as an IT Pro Technology Advisor, based in Amsterdam. Together with my colleague Tony Krijnen we work with the TechNet community in the Netherlands through TechNet events...

We have posted a draft for the steps to update or migrate a WSUS MSDE or WMSDE database to a full version of SQL 2000 on the local or a remote server. This draft is previewed on the WSUS wiki at: http://www.wsuswiki.com/UpgradingMSDEtoSQL2000 . When finalized...

I just saw the first news regarding arrests for Zotob: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050826/D8C7K9NO3.html
It seems that the work we are doing together with the different policies starts to pay off
Roger

Well, I have seen several virus alerts on Level 2 from F-Secure without actually atking off. But this time there is a huge difference: When Slammer broke out, I have been on vacation. When Blaster took off - I have been on vacation. Since an hour, I am...

Over the last few months we have been working hard on creating the next version of the Microsoft anti-spyware technology. Today, we are announcing the new name for this technology… Microsoft Windows Defender. Does this mean a lot is changing?? Well.....

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) just released a pretty interesting e-Learning Course regarding "Security in the Information Age".
I personally think that ir somewhere opens up the IT-Security-Guy's mind:
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/crn...

I received a mail from a blog reader (Jim) who asked:
"Can you provide any insight regarding and tweaks or configuration settings you guys use on your DC builds?"
Sure, I'm happy to do this, so here I am typing happily along, and realized that...

The recommended practice is to choose a virtual drive assignment and stick to it; commonly, this is drive Q: - so what happens if you want to change to something else, for example, V: If all applications were equal and followed recommended practice, then...

Some customers have reported that update package for KB917013 was being deployed to WSUS clients without having approved the update for installation on their WSUS servers. The original update release, released February 2007 as an optional update, was...

Exchange Server 2007 can be installed into an existing Exchange 2000/2003 (hereafter called Exchange 2003, except where there's something particular about Exchange 2000) organization as one step in the migration process. Once Exchange 2007 has been introduced...

If you want to use Virtual Server 2005 Migration Toolkit (VSMT) to migrate a computer running Windows Server 2003 SP1 to a virtual machine, you'll need to copy some system files from your installation of Windows Server 2003 SP1 to the computer running...

As mentioned in previous posts , the Access-Based Enumeration GUI and Command-Line tools and whitepaper would be available as a separate download for SP1. It can now be downloaded here . Many thanks to Koni for tracking this - truly appreciated.
Here...

Here's a tip from Paul Adare (author of Paul's Digital Lounge and Cigar Bar ). If you want an application to discover it's running in a virtual machine, you can do the following:
You could query the registry for the existence of the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft...

My favorite Calgary-ian Pam left the following comment on my last blog post:
Hm. In a perfect world, there would need to be a contractual component to any and all technical federations, and those contractual components should go through review by...

We have just released the Beta for Tafiti Search . It uses Silverlight and Live Search and it adds a interesting dynamic for Search by visualising, storing and sharing the result. Home Screen Search results for when I typed in Australia. You can drag...

Hi,
I'm very glad to get so many comments on the blog in only 3 days. I read all the comments carefully and I'm encouraged by every one of you. I will go ahead to update our blogs according to your great suggestions. Below, I list what we will do next...

Starting today, the WSUS administrator will notice that the IMF Filters now supersede each other instead of direct expiration of every update. A review of the process over the last couple of months allowed us to identify that the expiration release model...

This article ( Protect passwords? Not if latte is free ) was passed on to me from a colleague who also saw the irony in this. I would say that we're 3 years too late in making 2-factor auth a base part of computing. This makes identity theft almost too...

Hi WSUS Admins - Just a reminder, the DST update made available to your WSUS servers today (KB931836) is classified as an update rollup so AU and SMS/ITMU pick it up too. For WSUS that means, you'll want to make sure either to modify your auto approval...